thereof, shall be of opinion and shall so adjudge that the waste water, slops and human excreta upon, and incident to the use of, any building or buildings or premises, on lots contiguous to any of said streets, alleys or lanes in which is any such sewer or drain, but not connected with such sewer or drain through proper and authorized plumbing, are offensive to sight or smell, or dangerous to life or health, the owner or owners of such house or premises shall forthwith connect said house or premises with said sewer-—and shall thereafter drain all wash water, waste water, slops and human excreta from said building or premises into said sewer. And any such owner or owners, who after thirty days notice in writing from the Board of Health, that said waste water, slops and human excreta are offensive to sight or smell, or are dangerous to life or health, and that he or they must forthwith connect said house or premises with said sewer or drain, shall fail or neglect to make such connection in a manner satisfactory to the Board of Health; or if such connection has been made shall thereafter fail or neglect after such notice to cause all wash water, waste water, slops and human excreta to be drained from said building or premises into and through said sewer, shall forfeit and pay for each week's failure or neglect, not exceeding twenty dollars to be recovered in an action of debt for the use of the city.

PLUMBING AND HOUSE DRAINAGE

1. Before proceeding to construct any portion of the drainage system of a building, the owner, builder or person constructing the same shall file with the board of health a plan thereof showing the whole drainage system, from its connection with the common sewer to its terminus in the house, together with the location and sizes of all branches, traps, ventilating pipes and fixtures, and no such work shall be done in any building without the approval of said board of health.

2. All soil pipes shall be carried at their full size, at least two feet above the roof and left open.

3. All drains now built shall be reconstructed, whenever in the opinion of the board of health it may be necessary.

DEERING.

Orders of the Board of Health of the town of Deering, Maine. Adopted May 26th, 1890.

1. No sink, bath tub, water closet, privy, cess-pool or place of accumulation of offensive liquid matter, shall be allowed to drain into any lane, street or highway.

3. No night soil, sewage, contents of privy vaults or cess-pools, or other noisome substance, shall be deposited in any place, or used as manure or fertilizer in such way or manner, as shall be detrimental to life or health, or offensive to the neighborhood wherever located.

4. Whenever a privy vault shall have been removed by order of the board of health, or otherwise, the premises shall be supplied with suitable water closet which, in respect to its water flush, shall be satisfactory to the board of health.

EDDINGTON.

SECT. 1. A public funeral shall not be held for any person who' has died of scarlet fever, diphtheria, small-pox, cholera or typhus fever; and the body of any person who has died of any of these diseases, shall neither be brought within nor carried without the jurisdiction of this board without permission in writing from the board, nor shall there be a disinterment of any such body after it has once been buried, without the written permission of the board. SECT. 2. No dead animal shall, within the jurisdiction of this board, be put into any river, well, spring, cistern, reservoir, stream or pond; nor shall any live animal be put into any river, well, spring, cistern, reservoir, stream or pond for the purpose of drowning and allowed to remain in said waters; nor shall any dead animal be allowed to decay upon the surface of the earth within the jurisdiction of this board.

MASON.

By-laws of the town of Mason relating to public health. Adopted June 20th, 1887.

RULE 5. No privy shall be located so as to affect the purity of any well or spring of water used for drinking or cooking purposes, and all privies shall be cleaned out at least twice each year, on, or before the first day of June and the first day of November. RULE 6. All sinks shall be so drained as not to endanger the purity of well or spring of water, and no sink drain shall leave its deposit sufficiently near any dwelling as to make the air unhealthy.

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RULE 7. All cellars must be properly cleaned once each year, on or before the first day of June, of all decaying vegetables or impure collections.

NORTHPORT.

Rules and regulations of the local board of health of Northport. Adopted August 4, 1887.

The frequent throwing out of dirty water or other liquids in any place so as to cause an offensive condition of the premises, or the collection of refuse matter in or around the immediate vicinity of any dwelling house, cottage, tent, or place of business, such as swill, waste of meat, fish or shells, bones, decaying vegetables, dead carcasses, excrement, or any kind of offal that may decompose and generate disease germs or unhealthy gases, and thus affect the purity of the air or contaminate the water of any well, shall be considered nuisances of the worst kind and must be discontinued and the offensive substances removed, or disposed of by burial, burning or otherwise, and in such manner as not to be offensive to the neighborhood wherever located.

Copies of the orders or by-laws adopted by many other local boards of health in this State have been received, but they are based on the model by-laws suggested by the State Board, are duplications of some of the foregoing, or our later State legislation has rendered them needless.

ASBURY PARK, N. J.

Sanitary code of the borough of Asbury Park, N. J. Adopted March 22, 1887.

SECT. 6. Every physician shall report to this board, in writing, the name, age and address of every person having scarlet fever, diphtheria, membraneous croup, dysentery, measles, small-pox, varioloid, cholera, typhoid fever, typhus fever, yellow fever or any other contagious or infectious or communicable disease, publicly declared by this Board to be dangerous to the public health, whom such physician shall have professionally attended or prescribed for; said report to be made within twelve hours after such physician has first professionally attended such sick person. Said reports shall

be written on blank forms provided by this Board, and said reports shall be furnished subject to the provisions of section 14 of the rules and regulations of this Board. Any person or persons offending against any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of one hundred dollars.

SECT. 7 Every physician shall report in writing the name, age, and address of any person who shall have died of any of the diseases mentioned or referred to in the foregoing section, within three hours after he shall have been informed of said death, and such report shall be independent of the regular certificate of death required by law. Any person or persons offending against any of the provisions or this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars.

SECT. 8. No principal, teacher or superintendent of any school, and no parent or guardian of any child attending any school, shall permit any child sick with any disease mentioned in Section 6, or with any other communicable disease, or any child residing in any house in which such disease shall exist, to attend any school until this Board shall have given its permit therefor. Any person or persons offending against any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a fine of twenty dollars.

SECT. 9. Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by this board to establish the true character of any disease which they may believe to be communicable, a medical examination of the person or persons affected by such disease may be ordered, and such examination shall be permitted by all attendants and persons. Any person or persons offending against any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty dollars.

SECT. 10. In case infectious or contagious or communicable disease occurs in this borough, the person affected thereby shall at the discretion of this Board, be isolated or they may be removed to such locality as this Board may order and direct; and all buildings, clothing, property and premises and vehicles which may become infected by the presence of persons affected by contagious, infectious or communicable disease shall be disinfected at the expense of the tenant, occupant or owner thereof, and said disinfection or fumigation shall be made and performed in such manner and with such materials and within such stated time and under such superVision as this Board may direct. And this Board may establish such separation and isolation or quarantine of the sick from other

persons not necessary as attendants, and also provide and effect such special care, disinfection and cleansing of property and premises as shall, in the judgment of the Board, be needed in order to prevent the spreading of such diseases to other persons Any person or persons offending against any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of fifty dollars.

SECT. 11. Whenever quarantine or isolation and separation of persons or property is ordered by this Board, notice of said order shall be given to the persons affected thereby. Said notice shall be in writing and it may be served personally, or it may be posted upon the building or premises occupied by the infected persons or property. The requirements of said quarantine notices shall be obeyed by all persons, and no such notice nor any other sign indicating the presence of communicable disease upon any premises shall be removed except by consent of this Board. Any person or persons offending against any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of one hundred dollars.

SECT. 12. No person or article liable to propagate a communicable disease shall be brought within or removed from the limits of the borough of Asbury Park without the written permit and under the direction of the board of health thereof; and whenever it shall come to the knowledge of any person that such person or article has been brought within such limits, he shall immediately give notice thereof to the said board. No person shall, within the borough of Asbury Park, without a permit from the board of health therefor, carry or remove from one building to any other, any person sick of any communicable disease, nor shall any person by any exposure of any individual sick of any communicable disease, or of the body of such person, or by any negligent act connected therewith, or in respect to the care or custody thereof, or by a needless exposure of himself, cause or contribute to, or promote the spread of any communicable disease. Any owner, lessee or tenant of any dwelling in which there shall occur a case of communicable disease, shall immediately notify the board of health of the same, and until instructions are received from the said board, shall not permit any clothing or other property that may have been exposed to infection to be removed from the house. Nor shall any occupant of such a house change his residence elsewhere without the consent of the said board during the prevalence of any public danger from said disease; and all attendants upon any person sick with small-pox,